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WASHINGTON  — US home prices rose in most major cities in October compared with a year ago, pushed up by rising sales and a decline in the supply of available homes.

Federal money would’ve helped the neighborhood around a mixed-income development grow.

A new  Hull House exhibition presents the radical past and future of home economics.

A group of public housing residents demanded the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) include their recommendations in the agency’s plan to decentralize poverty.The Central Advisory Council (CAC), made up of public housing residents, compiled their concerns in a report presented Friday.Among the re

While U.S housing starts are showing a faster pace of increase nationwide, residential construction in Chicago are showing a more modest recovery.

The museum says the exhibit, called "The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation," is the first comprehensive look at music created exclusively by artists who have lived in public housing.

Foreclosures and other distressed properties continue to weigh down overall Chicago-area home prices.